Hi all, First, Thx to Heinz for not only writing great code, but taking the time to document and respond to inquires. I have read the white paper and many, many mailings on this list, but I haven't seen anything addressing my problem. Problem: After creating LVM Vol Group (VG1) and single Log. Vol (lvol1) on ataraid mirrored drives (/dev/ataraid/d0p3) only one drives seems to get used. I have repeated this process several times - 1. Set up pvcreate - pvcreate /dev/ataraid/d0p1 - success 2. Run pvscan: Reports pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ataraid/d0p3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- total: 2 [327.96 GB] / in use: 0 [0] / in no VG: 2 [327.96 GB] 3. Run vgcreate -s 64 VG1 /dev/ataraid/d0p3 - success 4. Run pvscan: Reports pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/ataraid/d0p3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- total: 3 [327.96 GB] / in use: 3 [327.96 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] 5. Create Logical Volume goes ok.. Format with ReiserFS - reports 109 GBs or so on mounting. Life is good, right? Until I reboot. 6. Reboot 7. Run pvscan: Reports pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ataraid/d0p3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda3" is in no VG [109.32 GB] pvscan -- total: 3 [327.96 GB] / in use: 3 [327.96 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] Hda3 becomes the active.. member?.. Drive activity seems to only occur on the first drive (which is what made me dig into this in the first place. I can't seem to make /dev/ataraid/d0p3 become active. I've tried unsucessfully tor remove with pvchange -x y option for hda3 and hdc3, also tried vgremove. Doesn't seem to work. If I make it a simple ReiserFS partition /dev/ataraid/d0p3 and mount it normally, both drives are active -- sharing writes and striping reads. ATARaid support is in the kernel (no drives installed) and otherwise seems to work very well - booting off it and running well on several machines. Some Specifics: Debian 3.0, Kernel 2.4.19, Promise built in ata raid, LVM 1.0.4, 2x WD 120 GB drives. .......... Nathan Dornquast Aberon Technologies, Inc. 2205 California St NE - Suite 003 Minneapolis, MN 55418 w.612.789.9446 c.612.386.6519 .......... _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
